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Another Sky Festival Another Sky is a London-based festival of experimental music from the SWANA region and diaspora

Saturday as part of Another Sky Festival presents and   Mark Knoop performs ’s ‘Waves of crashing blackness’ (2024)For...
23/04/2026

Saturday as part of Another Sky Festival presents and  

Mark Knoop performs ’s ‘Waves of crashing blackness’ (2024)
For piano, electronics & fixed audiovisual media.

BNM26: ãssia ghendir / Mark Knoop / Sam Salem
25 Apr 14:30

SUNDAY ANOTHER SKY FESTIVAL سماءٌ اُخرى DAY 3Another Sky Label MarketWith Cafe Oto12–3pm FreeReading & Discussion Group:...
19/04/2026

SUNDAY ANOTHER SKY FESTIVAL سماءٌ اُخرى DAY 3

Another Sky Label Market
With 

Cafe Oto
12–3pm Free

Reading & Discussion Group: Sounding Survival with Mhamad Safa

Dalston CLR James Library
2–4pm £5/£3 Advance

Evening Music Programme: The Museum Of The Lowest Place by Sam Salem أسامة سالم + Bint Mbareh بنت مبارح + Khabat Abas عەباس خەبات & Hardi Kurda کوردە هەردی .kurda + YUNIS يونس

Cafe Oto
7pm £20/£17 Advance

SATURDAY ANOTHER SKY FESTIVAL سماءٌ اُخرى DAY 2Workshop: Finding Your Seat at the Table with Olivia Melkonian Օլիվիա Մել...
18/04/2026

SATURDAY ANOTHER SKY FESTIVAL سماءٌ اُخرى DAY 2

Workshop: Finding Your Seat at the Table with Olivia Melkonian Օլիվիա Մելքոնեան and Sherif Dhaimish الشريف دهيميش

Dalston CLR James Library
1.30–4pm £5/£3 Advance

Film Screening – 'With Hasan In Gaza' مع حسن في غزة By Kamal Aljafari كمال ‎الجعفري

Cafe Oto
1–3.30pm £5/£3 Advance

Evening Music Programme: Fatima Lahham فاطمة اللحام + Dania + HUUUM هوم + more

Cafe Oto
7pm £20/£17 Advance

Another Sky Festival OPENS TONIGHT Fri 17 AprAnother Sky co-presented with  Mosaic Rooms7pm Free entry; RSVP essential▪...
17/04/2026

Another Sky Festival OPENS TONIGHT

Fri 17 Apr

Another Sky co-presented with 

Mosaic Rooms
7pm Free entry; RSVP essential

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Sat 18 Apr

Workshop: Finding Your Seat at the Table with Olivia Melkonian Օլիվիա Մելքոնեան and Sherif Dhaimish الشريف دهيميش

Dalston CLR James Library
1.30–4pm £5/£3 Advance

Film Screening – 'With Hasan In Gaza' مع حسن في غزة By Kamal Aljafari كمال
الجعفري

Cafe Oto
1–3.30pm £5/£3 Advance

Evening Music Programme: Fatima Lahham فاطمة اللحام + Dania + HUUUM هوم + more

Cafe Oto
7pm £20/£17 Advance

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Sun 19 Apr

Another Sky Label Market
With 

Cafe Oto
12–3pm Free

Reading & Discussion Group: Sounding Survival with Mhamad Safa

Dalston CLR James Library
2–4pm £5/£3 Advance

Evening Music Programme: The Museum Of The Lowest Place by Sam Salem أسامة سالم + Bint Mbareh بنت مبارح + Khabat Abas عەباس خەبات & Hardi Kurda کوردە هەردی + YUNIS يونس

Cafe Oto
7pm £20/£17 Advance

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Special thanks to    Composers Fund       

A matinee and a workshop for SaturdayAnother Sky: Film ScreeningWith Hasan in Gaza مع حسن في غزة By Kamal Aljafari كمال ...
16/04/2026

A matinee and a workshop for Saturday

Another Sky: Film Screening
With Hasan in Gaza مع حسن في غزة By Kamal Aljafari كمال الجعفري

“A homage to Gaza and its people, to all that was erased and that came back to me in this urgent moment of Palestinian existence, or non-existence. It is a film about the catastrophe, and the poetry that resists.” Kamal Aljafari


Sat 18 Apr, 1–3.30pm
£5/£3 Advance

Another Sky: Workshop
Finding Your Seat at the Table 
Navigating morality and compromise in the creative industries

Participatory workshop led by filmmaker, archivist and sound artist Olivia Melkonian Օլիվի Մելքոնեան and publisher and writer Sherif Dhaimish الشريف دهيميش.

Dalston CLR James Library
Dalston Square E8 3BQ
Doors 1.30pm
Workshop 2-4pm
£5/£3 Advance

Next Saturday as part of Another Sky Festival presents and   Mark Knoop performs ’s ‘Waves of crashing blackness’ (202...
15/04/2026

Next Saturday as part of Another Sky Festival presents and  

Mark Knoop performs ’s ‘Waves of crashing blackness’ (2024)
For piano, electronics & fixed audiovisual media.

BNM26: ãssia ghendir / Mark Knoop / Sam Salem
25 Apr 14:30

Design: .kecampbell
Photo of Mark Knoop: Marc Tunguz

SUNDAY! Another Sky Festival Market independent label, publisher, and gift fair, co-presented with Plus installation: ...
14/04/2026

SUNDAY! Another Sky Festival Market independent label, publisher, and gift fair, co-presented with

Plus installation: .gaza Music & Soundmapping Project

Navigate Ambient Gaza’s sound map at an interactive listening station at our market – preserving survivors’ voices and testimonials, creating a living archive of experiences and places that refuse to be erased.

Stalls

Drowned by Locals
Injazero
Khidr collective
LibLib
Mangal Media
Maqam
Morphine
The 87 Press
Akazib
Lamiri Harissa

📸

Sun 19 Apr
Another Sky Market
Cafe Oto

12-3pm
Free

Another Sky Festival opens FRIDAYPerformers line up ‼️ More tbcAdan Azzam عدن عزام Bint Mbareh بنت مبارح Dania Daniel B...
13/04/2026

Another Sky Festival opens FRIDAY

Performers line up ‼️ More tbc

Adan Azzam عدن عزام

Bint Mbareh بنت مبارح

Dania

Daniel Brew

Edward Kass
Fatima Lahham فاطمة اللحام

Hardi Kurda هەردی کوردەkurda
HUUUM هوم
Julmud جُلموْد
Khabat Abas خەبات عەباس

Linda Jankowska

Mazen Kerbaj

Nina Guo

Sam Salem أسامة سالم

Sasha Mahfouz Shadid ساشا شديد
YUNIS يونس


More tbc!

BUY SERIES PASS FOR ALL SEVEN EVENTS
£30 Advance

Three day programme

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Fri 17 Apr

Another Sky co-presented with 

Mosaic Rooms
7pm Free entry; RSVP essential – RSVP opens on Monday

▪️

Sat 18 Apr

Workshop: Finding Your Seat at the Table with Olivia Melkonian Օլիվիա Մելքոնեան and Sherif Dhaimish الشريف دهيميش

Dalston CLR James Library
1.30–4pm £5/£3 Advance

Film Screening – 'With Hasan In Gaza' مع حسن في غزة By Kamal Aljafari كمال
الجعفري

Cafe Oto
1–3.30pm £5/£3 Advance

Evening Music Programme: Fatima Lahham فاطمة اللحام + Dania + HUUUM هوم + more

Cafe Oto
7pm £20/£17 Advance

▪️

Sun 19 Apr

Another Sky Label Market
With 

Cafe Oto
12–3pm Free

Reading & Discussion Group: Sounding Survival with Mhamad Safa

Dalston CLR James Library
2–4pm £5/£3 Advance

Evening Music Programme: The Museum Of The Lowest Place by Sam Salem أسامة سالم + Bint Mbareh بنت مبارح + Khabat Abas عەباس خەبات & Hardi Kurda کوردە هەردی + YUNIS يونس

Cafe Oto
7pm £20/£17 Advance

▪️

Events in Bristol and Manchester 🔜

🖼️ 

Special thanks to    Composers Fund       

Next Sunday Another Sky Festival Day 312-3pm Cafe Oto1 - Another Sky: Label Market with Independent label, publisher, c...
12/04/2026

Next Sunday Another Sky Festival Day 3

12-3pm Cafe Oto

1 - Another Sky: Label Market with

Independent label, publisher, craft and gift fair, co-presented with .

2 - Installationgaza Music and Soundmapping Project

Navigate Ambient Gaza’s sound map at an interactive listening station at our market – preserving survivors’ voices and testimonials, creating a living archive of experiences and places that refuse to be erased.

2pm-4pm

Reading & Discussion Group: Sounding Survival
Fundamentals of wartime listening and acoustics of violence

Conversation and reading session led by Mhamad Safa for critical engagement with key aspects of wartime listening and the sonic perception of military violence in war zones.


Sold Out/Returns waiting List

7pm-10:45pm

Another Sky Evening Concert: The Museum Of The Lowest Place + Bint Mbareh بنت مبارح + Khabat Abas عەباس خەبات & Hardi Kurda کوردە هەردی + Yunis يونس

The Museum of the Lowest Place
Sam Salem سالم أسامة presents the world premiere of this major commission for voice, piano, violin, double bass and microtonal guitar. Performed by Nina Guo, Daniel Brew, Linda Jankowska, Edward Kass, Mark Knoop.This work is supported by PRS Foundation’s Composers’ Fund.

Bint Mbareh بنت مبارح
Sound researcher and organiser with Exist Festival, with a focus on water in Palestine. She challenges settler-colonial epistemology by taking seriously Palestinian ways of knowing, from rain-summoning music to shrine pilgrimage, as an instigator of political revolution.

Khabat Abas عەباس خەبات and Hardi Kurda کوردە هەردی .kurda
Another Sky Artist in Residence Khabat Abas presents development work for an Another Sky commission for late 2026.

Photo of Hardi Kurda

YUNIS يونس
The Egyptian artist presents Ninety Nine Eyes, a new live ritual set and album weaving Afro-Arab rhythms, trance structures and electronic maximalism into a sonic pilgrimage.

Cafe Oto
£20/£17 advance

All tickets via

Next Saturday the second day of Another Sky Festival ‘With Hasan in Gaza’ مع حسن في غزةBy Kamal Aljafari كمال الجعفري Dr...
11/04/2026

Next Saturday the second day of Another Sky Festival

‘With Hasan in Gaza’ مع حسن في غزة
By Kamal Aljafari كمال الجعفري


Drawn from material filmed in 2001 during a search for a former prison mate, 'With Hasan in Gaza' is a tribute to a people and a land, and in Aljafari’s words, “the catastrophe and the poetry that resists”.

Cafe Oto
Doors 1pm
Film 1.30-3.30pm
£5/£3 Advance Tickets

Another Sky: Workshop with Olivia Melkonian Օլիվիա Մելքոնեան and Sherif Dhaimish الشريف دهيميش

A participatory workshop exploring how creative practitioners sustain their work while navigating institutions, independence and personal values. Drawing on their backgrounds in publishing and audio production/archiving, Dhaimish and Melkonian invite participants to reflect on compromise, autonomy and what success looks like on their own terms.

Supported by

Dalston CLR James Library, Dalston Square E8 3BQ
Doors 1.30pm
Workshop 2-4pm
Capacity limited to 30
£5/£3 Advance

Another Sky: Evening Concert — Fatima Lahham فاطمة اللحام + Dania + HUUUM هوم + Julmud جُلموْد

Mazen Kerbaj, 'Starry Night'

Improvisation recorded by Kerbaj on the balcony of his flat in Beirut, on the night of 15 to 16 July 2006. Diffusion.

Fatima Lahham فاطمة اللحام

Recorder-playing vocalist whose songs are inspired by baroque and Arabic music and birdsong.

Dania

Architect of textured, neo-ambient soundscapes; she explores sound and identity, in particular how the latter has fractured in a postcolonial world. Founder of experimental platform Paralaxe Editions.

HUUUM هوم

Omid Darvish, Rojin Sharafi and Alvaro Collao León’s live project brings together Iranian vocals, atypical rhythms, electronic beats and microtonal sound.

Julmud جُلموْد

Ramallah-based music producer, researcher and sound engineer/designer. Collaborators include Al Nather, Muqata’a, Haykal, Baraari, Makimakkuk and Walaa Sbait.

More tbc…

Cafe Oto
Doors 7.00pm
Ends 11.40pm
£20/£17 Advance

All tickets 🎫 via

Sam Salem سالم أسامة presents the world premiere of ‘The Museum of the Lowest Place’, this major commission for voice, ...
09/04/2026

Sam Salem سالم أسامة presents the world premiere of ‘The Museum of the Lowest Place’, this major commission for voice, piano, violin, double bass and microtonal guitar. Performed by Nina Guo Daniel Brew Linda Jankowska Edward Kass, Mark Knoop This work is supported by PRS Foundation’s Composers’ Fund

Slides in order
Nina Guo 📸 Camille Blake
Daniel Brew 📸 Dimitri Djuric
Linda Jankowska 📸 Fabio Luisi
Edward Kass
Mark Knoop 📸 Dimitri Djuric

Another Sky – Evening Music Programme: ‘The Museum of the Lowest Place’ + Bint Mbareh بنت مبارح + Khabat Abas عەباس خەبات & Hardi Kurda کوردە هەردی + YUNIS يونس

Cafe Oto
Sun 19 Apr 7pm
Tickets 🎫 £20/£17 advance

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